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30s / 40s / Alternative / Bar / Beer
Party Earth Review Only halfway up a small alley but worlds away from the neighboring North Beach strip clubs, 15 Romolo – inside the extended-stay Basque Hotel – is a hard-to-find bar that entices crowds with intricately crafted cocktails and a hipster vibe not exactly prevalent in this touristy part of town. A dark saloon décor forms a ... more
Basque Hotel
15 Romolo Place
San Francisco, CA 94133
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ATM / After Work / Arcade Games
Party Earth Review There’s no shortage of dance clubs and gritty dives in the SoMa district, but Bloodhound – at least by last count – is the area’s only hunting lodge. Tucked beneath a budget hotel, the simple venue could easily be missed by inattentive passersby, but inside, the place looks like a barn and a speakeasy gave birth to a rec ... more
1145 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
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30s / 40s / After Work / Bar Food
Party Earth Review Easy walking distance from the high rises towering over Downtown, Steff’s Sports Bar is a relaxed dive with lots of TVs and very little pretense. Mostly mellow during the week, the joint is popular with financial types who often sneak in during lunch, shedding their ties at the dark wooden bar and sipping a few Buds under ... more
141 2nd Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
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30s / 40s / After Work / Artists / TVs
Party Earth Review A cozy neighborhood Giants haunt located in the midst of a sea of hotels and offices, Dave’s attracts a varied clientele with its affordable grub and heavy-handed drink specials. Though the single-room joint is a San Francisco sports bar to its core – evidenced by the extensive collection of Giants memorabilia – regular ... more
29 3rd Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
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30s / 40s / Bar / Bottle Service / DJ
Party Earth Review Located in tourist-heavy Fisherman’s Wharf, The Parlor is equal parts dance club, sports bar, and classic cocktail lounge. Daily Happy Hours entice preppy young Giants fans from the nearby Marina to drop in for a game and a Bud, not to mention the tidal waves of out-of-towners making a pit stop before hitting the area’s ... more
2801 Leavenworth Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
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30s / Bands / Bottle Service / DJ
Party Earth Review Located on the ground floor of a brick office building and accessed via a narrow alley just off Montgomery Street, John Colins is a popular little club with Happy Hour specials characteristic of a casual neighborhood bar. Murals of coastal scenes and mounted surfboards combine with impressionistic cityscapes to create ... more
138 Minna Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
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Anything goes / Arcade Games
Party Earth Review Eighteen beers on tap, TVs all around, and walls covered with photos, posters, clippings, and anything else related to sports all combine to make Greens Sports Bar one of the city’s most dedicated houses of worship to the holy trinity of baseball, football, and basketball. Hockey, golf, soccer, and probably even horseshoes ... more
2239 Polk Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
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30s / 40s / Art Gallery / Artists / DJ
Party Earth Review With its Burberry-plaid and gold-plated AK-47 over the bar and a mirror-covered bomb standing in for a disco ball, Madrone Art Bar already eschews the typical club look. Add to this a jumbled hodgepodge of paintings, sculptures, and video displays, a few snaking wooden chandeliers, and wildly varied music, and it’s no wonder ... more
500 Divisadero Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
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20s / 30s / ATM / Alternative Rock
Party Earth Review Home to more than 120 varieties of rum – quite possibly the largest selection in the city – Hobson’s Choice is a place where real men quickly discover the power of a frou-frou drink. Haight residents sporting skinny jeans and perpetual five o’clock shadows drop in for Happy Hour, slinging back $3 House Punches as med students ... more
1601 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
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20s / 30s / Affluent Hipsters
Party Earth Review A covert bar inside another bar, The Hideout is a classy alternative to the neighboring dives that dominate 16th Street, including Dalva, the very one it’s hidden behind. Small groups of young professionals plow through the long room that makes up Dalva, past the horse painting and projection screen showing silent films ... more
Dalva
3121 16th Street
San Francisco CA 94110
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30s / 40s / Balcony / Bar / Beer / Casual
Party Earth Review Tapas and beer are on the menu at ThirstyBear Brewing Company, a cavernous brewery and restaurant that gets chock-full of city denizens in need of Spanish cuisine and freshly brewed pints. The round wooden tables that surround the central bar and line the exposed brick walls are taken over by tech workers and tourists at ... more
661 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
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30s / 40s / Bar / Beer / Beer Lovers
Party Earth Review Though it’s named in honor of Trappist monks who brew some of the finest craft beers in the world, The Monk’s Kettle is far too busy to pass for a monastery. The cozy gastropub’s carved hardwood bar, Beaux-Arts booths, and vintage lighting give it more of a classy European café vibe, setting it apart from the dives that ... more
3141 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
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Recommended Bars in SF
Top Sports Bars
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SF Bars Overview
Open your golden gates, Bay Area, and let us in to the incredible array of bars in San Francisco. The city is certainly known for its wine given the proximity to the famed Napa Valley, and lovers of the grape will enjoy a thousand lifetimes of wine bars, from swanky spots to budget-friendly dens to down a bottle or three.
If sipping wine doesn’t entice, it’s hardly a chore to fill the void, as SF bars cover the gamut and serve up just about everything one can imagine. The hipster-heavy Mission is known for its great mixology spots and gastropubs, as well as a plethora of gritty dive bars that seemingly haven’t been cleaned since the Great Earthquake.
It’s a meat-market in the upscale Marina on the weekends, with bar-hoppers spilling into the streets, and the same can be said of Polk Street in Russian Hill. Known for its vivid gay history, The Castro welcomes everyone into its bars with the requisite rainbow flags out front, and though the hippy heydays have long since burned off The Haight, it’s still a great place to find cheap beer and unpretentious drinking dens.
San Francisco bars are like its people: diverse, festive, and full of life, so whether visitors want to cry in their beer at a Tenderloin dive, sample the latest mixology craze at a speakeasy blocks away, or let loose in a tropical drink paradise way on the outskirts of town, SF bars have it covered like the fog covers the city.
Find San Francisco Bars by Neighborhood
Mission
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Delirium
20s / 30s / 80s Music / DJ / Emo
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Beretta
30s / 40s / 80s Music / Artsy
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Elbo Room
20s / 30s / 80s Music / ATM / DJ
SoMa
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Press Club
30s / 40s / Ambient Jazz / DJ
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District
30s / 40s / Affluent / Dinner
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Cat Club
30s / 40s / 80s Music / Bar / DJ
Downtown / Financial District
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Redwood Room
30s / 40s / 90s Music / Chic
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Lefty O'Doul's
20s / 30s / 40s / All Ages / TVs
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Comstock Saloon
30s / 40s / Bar / Blues / DJ / Jazz
Civic Center / Tenderloin
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Pandora Karaoke & Bar
30s / After Work / Beer
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Rye
30s / 40s / Blazers / Casual
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Tradition
30s / 40s / Ambient / Bar
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